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I'm Ryan from extremeterrain.com and this is my review and installation of the Rock

Krawler Max Travel Lift Kit System, fitting your two door, 2007 and up, JK.

Today we're gonna talk through the installation of this lift kit, which is going to be getting

two out of three wrench install and a strong two out of three wrenches at that.

There are quite a few different components to install with this lift kit.

You can certainly do this in your driveway in probably around four hours.

But if you're not comfortable ripping your entire suspension apart, then it would be

a good idea to take this to a shop and have it installed.

However, we'll talk more about the installation in a minute.

We're also gonna talk through the construction and a few of the features of this kit.

This lift kit is for those of you looking to add three and a half inches of lift to

your JK, to be able to run a 35 or even a 37-inch tire, especially with flat fenders,

and are looking for a kit that is very well built, that is very complete, and you have

the budget for it.

This kit is gonna be around $2,100 without shocks and you are going to need new shocks

for a three and a half inch lift.

But, this kit is also going to give you excellent ride and handling characteristics on the road,

as well as a ton of articulation and a ton of performance off-road.

This is also going to be built from components that are going to hold up incredibly well

with on-road and off-road.

So, if you have the budget for it, if you're looking for a very complete kit and you want

that performance, I think this is going to be a great kit to take a look at.

However, if you're on the flip side of that coin, you just wanna run a 35-inch tire, you're

staying on the road, doing some real mild off-roading and you don't need or want the

performance that this kit offers, there are going to be some less expensive kits that

I would steer you toward.

But if you want, what in my opinion is one of the most complete and one of the best-built

kits available, I think that you're looking in the right place.

So again, this is the X-Factor system from Rock Krawler, which is their most complete

kit.

This is going to include all eight control arms, it's going to include both front and

rear track bars as well as the rest of the components you need to lift your jeep.

If you're looking for a kit that includes a few less components, but is still very high-quality

components and is still very functional on and off-road, you can look at the Max Travel

Kit.

That kit can always be upgraded to this kit by adding those additional components.

But if you want something that right out of the box has everything you could want to add

into your suspension, other than full axle assemblies, this is going to be an excellent

option to look at.

Now, right over here you start with your springs.

Again, these are going to provide three and a half inches of lift and this is going to

be a progressive rate spring.

And what that allows is for a very tall, uncompressed length which is going to ensure that all the

way through this suspension travel and all the way through your articulation, you're

still going to have some spring left.

You're not gonna run out of spring, you're still gonna have weight pushing on the spring,

which is pushing on the tire and giving you traction.

If you have a shorter spring as you articulate, there's no more weight pushing on that axle

and therefore, no more traction coming from that tire.

So these springs are very tall and compressed length and they're going to give you a ton

of off-road performance, as well as a comfortable on-road handling.

These springs aren't going to be a piece of your handling, it's mostly your shocks, but

again, because you are getting a progressive rate, you're going to get a bit of a softer

spring rate when you're on the road, which is going to give a nice comfortable ride.

Now, moving over to the control arms.

As I mentioned, this kit includes all eight control arms, all replacements, these are

all going to be adjustable control arms that you can dial in your pinion and your castor

in the front and your pinion angle in the rear.

And these are also going to be spherical joints on your control arms, which means that you're

not going to have that rubber bushing that can bind as you're trying to articulate off-road,

these are going to give you a ton of articulation.

These spherical joints are all rebuildable, they're all greaseable, and these are very

strong heavy duty control arms.

So as you're dragging them over the rocks, as you're dropping off of ledges, these are

going to hold up to any abuse that you can throw at them.

Now, getting back to the pinion and the castor angle, you don't need all eight control arms

in order to adjust your pinion and your castor angle.

And the Max Travel Kit has sort of the bare bones that you would want in order to adjust

those angles.

You're gonna want to get your pinion angle in front and rear back to a factory-like spec

so that you don't have any dry line vibrations or prematurely wear out your driveline components.

And you're gonna want to get the castor angle up front set properly, so you don't have that

flighty feel when you're driving down the highway so that your steering wheel wants

to recenter.

Having all eight control arms is, of course, beneficial, though, because as I mentioned

before, you're getting spherical joints on all of these control arms.

You're going to get the maximum amount of articulation and suspension travel with having

these control arms installed.

Moving on to what we have back here, which are going to be both your front and your rear

track bars.

Now, the Max Travel Kit just includes your rear.

With this X-Factor, you're also getting a very beefy front track bar that is of course,

adjustable.

These also have spherical joints on both ends so they're not going to bind up or limit your

suspension, travel, or articulation.

And outback, you're also going to get a very beefy track bar bracket.

This bracket is going to move the mounting location to more of a factory mounting location,

it's going to flatten out your track bar angle a little bit, help with your roll center.

It's going to give you back some of that factory handling characteristic that you would otherwise

lose by adding a big lift onto your jeep.

And this track bar bracket mounts in quite a few different locations.

It's going to mount to the factory track bar location.

It's going to u-bolt around the axle and it mounts in one other spot, so you're not going

to have any sway in the back of the jeep.

Sometimes when you raise the track bar mounting location, if the bracket's not really solid,

it can actually move a little bit and you can feel that going down the road.

This is a very well built, very solid track bar bracket.

You're not going to have that sway from this system.

And again, having the adjustable track bars in front and rear, ensures that you're going

to get your axles perfectly centered in both the front and the rear of the jeep.

Over here, you have an adjustable front sway bar end link, which is also a quick disconnect.

So you have all these spherical joints, and all these control arms, and all these track

bars, everything is going to be able to move really nice off-road.

But if you have your sway bars connected, that's going to be your limiting factor.

So, this is going to be an adjustable end link that will allow you to get your sway

bar angles proper, and you can also very easily disconnect them when you go off-road, taking

advantage of all of the articulation and travel that you get from the rest of these components.

This also comes with this nylon strap that you'll mount to the jeep, so when you have

that sway bar end link disconnected, you can swing it up out of the way, strap it so it's

not gonna fall down and bind or get bent in the suspension as you're off-roading.

This kit, the X-Factor, also comes with an adjustable rear sway bar end link, not quick

disconnect because you wouldn't want it to do that when you're off-road.

You can get a really unstable feel in your JK.

So you're gonna want to leave the rear's connected, which is why these aren't quick disconnect.

But again, they are adjustable so you can get that sway bar angle dialed in exactly

where you want it so that it doesn't become an issue when you are off-road.

Finally, this kit is going to include all four soft brake lines.

Now, there are kits on the market that will just include a bracket to move where the hard

line is mounted on the frame, so you can get away with using the factory soft lines.

I don't like that, especially on the front of the jeep, because in order to use those

brackets, you often have to straighten out the factory bends in the factory hard lines,

which I'd just rather not do.

So having a new set of lines like this, is something I really like.

I feel like it's the right way to modify your brake system so that it works with your new

taller suspension.

Now, it does add a little bit to the cost of the lift kit and it also adds a little

bit to the install because now you're breaking open the hydraulic system, you have to then

bleed out the brake system to make sure that everything is going to work properly again.

But, as I said, I think that that's the right way to do it, so I like that these are included

in this kit.

As I said, this kit includes a lot of components, pretty much everything that you would want

to add to your suspension if you're going with a standard control arm length suspension

setup.

And not only does it include a ton of components, they're all very, very high-quality components.

These are gonna last, they're gonna handle abuse on-road and off-road, they're gonna

give you a great ride and performance both on-road and off-road, and it's just a very

nice, very well put together kit.

As I said before, the install for this kit is going to be a two out of three wrenches.

You're gonna wanna give yourself around four hours to get it bolted up.

If you're not somebody who's comfortable with suspensions, with lift kits, you've never

done one before, you can still do this in your driveway, but just know it's probably

gonna take you a few additional hours.

You are gonna have to take every tool you have out of your toolbox to get this done.

It is fairly involved and there's no shame if you're not comfortable with doing this

and taking your jeep to a shop and having them install your lift kit for you.

Now the first step in the install is, of course, jacking up the jeep, support it by the frame

so you can lower or disconnect everything that keeps the axles from completely sagging

down.

That's going to be your track bars, your sway bar end links, your brake line brackets, and

of course, your shocks.

Once all of those components are removed or loosened, you can sag the axles down, pull

the coils out, reinstall your new, taller coils.

Now, before you put weight back on the axles, that's the time that you're going to wanna

install all of your control arms.

First, your going to wanna adjust those for length based on the parameters that Rock Krawler

gives you, then remove your factory control arms one or two at a time, and go ahead and

put your new control arms in place.

At the same time, while there's no load on the axle, that's when you'll swap out your

track bars and of course, install your track arm bracket.

And then, once there is a load on the suspension again, you'll go ahead and install your sway

bar end links.

At that point, you can also install your new brake lines and go through all of your proper

brake bleeding procedures.

So, you really are going to be touching about every piece of your suspension component by

installing this kit.

So you are going to need every tool at your disposal and quite a few hours, four or more,

to get this installed.

This lift kit comes in at right around $2,100 without shocks and you are going to have to

add shocks because this is a three and a half inch lift kit.

So, this is one of the more expensive kits that we offer.

It's also, as I've said over and over again, one of the most complete kits and it is built

with very high-quality components.

So I feel like I might be over-selling this, but at the same time, I don't think I am.

This is a very well-built kit that's very complete.

If you have the budget for it and you want a kit that's gonna perform on-road and off-road,

I would definitely recommend considering this lift kit.

So if you're looking to add a lift onto your JK to run a larger tire, but you also want

a kit that's going to perform very, very well on-road and off-road, and that's made up of

components that are very well-built and are gonna take some abuse, this is going to be

a really nice kit to take a look at, although you are going to have to have the budget for

it.

So, that's my review of the Rock Krawler X-Factor Lift Kit System, fitting all 2007 and up JKs,

that you can find right here at extremeterrain.com.

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Photoshop Color Grading With SOLID COLORS And Blend If - Duration: 5:31.

I'm gonna show you how to color grade any photo using only solid color adjustment layers

in Photoshop.

Stay tuned, 'cause this will be fun!

Hey guys welcome to my channel I'm Criss and you can find me on Twitter and Instagram

@eyestocker.

If this is your first time here, on this channel I make photo and video editing tutorials but

I also started to make some tech videos.

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I'm gonna start with this amazing photo, the way how she is posing is so expressive,

the whole shot creates an interesting mood so I'm gonna use some color grading

to make it look even better and more cinematic.

And I will use solid color adjustment layers for this edit.

It's one of the many ways how you can color grade an image in Photoshop.

So I have this single layer, as my background, I'm gonna add a Solid Color adjustment layer,

choose a nice blue here and then hit ok.

I will change the blending mode to Soft Light and I will rename the layer to "shadows".

As you can see my whole image has a blue tone now, but I want to maintain this color only

for the shadows.

And here is the trick.

I'm gonna right click on the layer, choose Blending Options and then I have to look at

the Blend If section right here in this area.

Let me explain a bit how this works for those of you who are new to the Blend If option

in Photoshop.

As you can see, the first layer, the top layer is this solid color layer and then underneath

is the background image with the model, which in this case is the Underlying Layer.

With this default setting, the blue layer is applied on both, shadows and highlights.

I need to restrict it to be visible in the shadows only, so I am gonna grab this slider

and tell Photoshop to avoid applying this blue cast in the highlights.

I'm gonna go with this slider to the left until I see a clear definition of the shadows.

I have a forest or something like that blurred in the background, I have some dark areas

on the water too, her hair is also dark, but you can notice that her skin and clothes were

not affected by the blue because they are bright.

Ok, but I still have an issue, the blue parts are so harsh right now and to make this transition

softer, I'm gonna hold down the ALT or Option on a Mac and split this highlights slider.

And now you can see that the transition between the highlights and shadows is much softer

than before.

Alright, I will leave this layer like this, I'm gonna hit OK.

I need to make a second solid color layer for the highlights.

For this one I'm gonna choose a bright orange, press OK and then I put this layer on Soft Light blending mode.

Double click here and rename the layer to Highlights and I'm gonna hide the blue layer

for now because I want to have a clearer view of what I'm doing with the highlights layer.

Right click on the orange layer, choose Blending Options and now I will drag the shadow slider

to the right because I need to apply the orange only in the highlights.

This seems to be a good spot here and I will split the slider by holding ALT or OPTION

and bring it back to the left to make the blending softer.

Press OK… now I have 2 separate layers: one for the shadows and the other one for

the highlights.

I can select them holding down CTRL or COMMAND and make a group by pressing CTRL+G or COMMAND+G.

Let's rename this group and call it Grading and now as you can probably see, the grading

effect is way too exagerated.

So with the group selected I will bring the opacity down to zero..

I recommend you this method as well, otherwise you will be tempted to overdue the color toning.

So.. from zero, I start to raise the opacity slowly and I stop somewhere arround 45-50%.

I think the blue layer is a bit strong so I will select it and lower the opacity on

this one too, I will put in 50% and it looks better now.

You can also change the colors of the layers anytime by double clicking on the colors here

or if you want to experiment with different types of looks you can easily select the group,

hit CTRL or COMMAND + J to duplicate it, you can call it Grading 2, hide the other group

and simply double click on the colors in the new group to change them.

So let's say I wanna change the highlights color to a bright green and the shadows layer

to a vibrant red.

Maybe reduce the opacity of the group to a 35% and there you go..

You have 2 different color grading results.

You can choose which one to be visible here in the layers group.

And also you can check for Before… and after.

I think this is a great result, but I would like you to leave a comment below and write

your oppinion about this way of color grading.

Do you like it more than other methods?

I would love to start a conversation on this with you guys.

I will make tutorials with other methods of color grading in the feature so if you are

interested in this make sure you smash the LIKE and subscribe if you don't want to miss anything.

Thanks so much for spending your time on my channel, I'm Criss, keep Photoshoping and

catch you in the next one.

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Kong Skull Island DELETED SCENES, Monsters & Rejected Concepts - Duration: 4:52.

Kong: Skull Island is a thrilling reimagining of King Kong's origins within Warner Bros

and Legendary's MonsterVerse.

And while Skull Island is packed with awesome action scenes and monsters, there are still

a number of fascinating creatures and scenes including alternate endings and post-credits

which didn't make it into the final movie.

Yippee-ki-yay movie lovers, it's Jan here and in this video, I'll be talking about many

of the scenes and rejected concepts we didn't get to see in the final cut of Kong: Skull

Island.

If you haven't seen the movie yet, obviously there are spoilers in this video, so be aware

of that or check out my spoiler-free review of the movie by tapping or clicking here.

Kong: Skull Island has a fantastic opening scene, however, what director Jordan Vogt-Roberts

initially had planned could have been even more spectacular.

In an idea that the director put to the studio, a squad of soldiers arrive on Skull Island

in the middle of World War II, and start fighting each other.

Suddenly, a huge ape appears that heavily resembles King Kong from the 2005 Peter Jackson

movie.

The soldiers shoot the giant gorilla dead, leaving the audience thinking that they just

killed Kong himself.

But then an even larger ape emerges with a roar!

By killing off Jackson's version of Kong in this alternate opening, Vogt-Roberts wanted

to establish the idea that the new movie was going to be very different to previous King

Kong movies.

However, unsurprisingly, the studio was not as keen as the director on kicking the film

off in that way!

Skull Island was also going to feature a number of other creatures and monsters.

The first creatures that were cut from the final movie were a pair of sabretooth tigers

that would have appeared the day after Conrad's team and the Sky Devils military unit landed

on the island.

Two enormous sabretooth tigers were going to enter the camp they'd established, triggering

a soldier to shoot and kill one of them, which would have sent the second tiger berserk,

killing that soldier.

The scene was an alternative way of introducing the idea that the explorers were setting in

motion events that would disrupt a local ecosystem they had no idea about.

Other weird and wonderful creatures cut from the movie include a monster Venus flytrap.

By the way, interestingly, a Venus flytrap monster already appeared in the animated Kong

TV series where it battled and nearly defeated Kong in the episode "Green Fear".

And The Art And Making of Kong: Skull Island has some very cool unused concept art of other

creatures and monsters we never got to see in the final film.

A number of unused designs exist for creatures below the water and others that live on the

land.

Although dinosaurs have featured in previous Kong films such as the 1933 and 2005 movies,

Vogt-Roberts was adamant that dinosaurs shouldn't appear in Kong: Skull Island.

The director said he didn't want to try and rival the Jurassic Park and World movies,

and he wanted his creatures not to feel "too alien-like."

In the end, the closest we got to a dinosaur in the final movie was a triceratops skull.

Director Vogt-Roberts also wanted the indigenous population and where they lived to feel fresh

and different from previous Kong movies.

But before the Iwi village we see in the final movie, two alternative indigenous settlements

were planned.

The first was going to be the Boat City where people lived among boats and other ships that

had washed up on the island.

The second village was going to be known as Kong City and it was planned as a traditional

tribal village that was built into rocks and caverns.

It was a place where the people literally worshipped Kong who would sit like a king

on a throne in front of them.

The concept art for Kong City looks epic and although it didn't make it into the final

movie, there is a nod to the original idea in the stone paintings of the Iwi worshipping

Kong that we see after Conrad and the team meet Marlow.

A different ending to the movie was also considered which would have featured a bigger role for

the Iwi people.

The alternate ending involved a desperate action scene with the team stuck on Marlow's

boat while being attacked by a Skull Crawler.

In the scene, the Skull Crawlers have broken through the wall and the boat ends up trapped

at the dead end of the river.

The only way to escape is for the Iwi villagers to haul the boat up over a rock face and waterfall

and into another river to get them to safety.

The scene was inspired by director Werner Herzog's 1982 film, Fitzcarraldo, about a

rubber baron who plans to use native people to drag a massive steamship over the side

of a mountain in the Amazon Basin.

As well as an alternate ending, there were also alternate post-credits scenes.

In one of them, Conrad and Weaver end up on a boat in the Arctic Ocean together with Brooks.

As they watch the ocean, Godzilla suddenly rises up through the layer of ice.

Although this would have been pretty cool, the idea was rejected as they realised the

scene would have been inconsistent with the timeline set in the 2014 Godzilla movie.

The main story in Kong: Skull Island takes place in the 1970s and in the Godzilla film,

it was reported that Godzilla hadn't appeared since the atomic bomb tests of the 1950s.

Now, I'd love to know what you thought about the deleted scenes and creatures we never

got to see in Kong: Skull Island.

And are there any kaiju you'd love to see appear in a future Kong or Godzilla movie?

Let me know in the comments below.

If you enjoyed this, then do hit that like button, and why not check out some more of

my movie deleted scenes videos here?

Thanks for watching and see you next time!

Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers!

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فيلم كرتون القط الكسول غارفيلد Garfield - A Tail of Two Kitties بالعربي HD كامل Gameplay - Duration: 17:06.

actually this isn't really Prince we can

save us from Dodgers we must do all we

can to keep in here until darkness is

meeting with the lawyers let's make him

feel at home and it was really Princeton

I'm getting sick of all this nonsense

talk I just want to go home and see my

owner you want to leave please take your

time this is your room the castle behind

all these yours oh this mine my leg

[Music]

Lou I assure you your majesty all

belongs to you well if you put it that

way very well if you insist with stop

calling me your majesty Winston call me

your highness you know very well your

highness unless a place worthy of me

your highness how about a little

exercise I really don't know what you

mean Winston I'm in great shape listen

to me christmas has been around he do

this to break objects or get rid of

enemies in knowing would open the box by

pressing the spin around for some action

how many let me explain something else

you never really know what is

micronation by pressing the charge but

meanwhile moving you can quickly charge

or enemies do the same as your friend OD

break the bonds Winston you wouldn't be

exploiting me by any chance stop

complaining and listen this is the last

exercise before your highness walks

Chris the tongue you're twice do a

double jump I use it to get up there and

break the one which reminds missions

you'll find with your compass and i'll

show you more great news fun yeah for

sure needs we're now you bring back

hello your highness welcome to the

garden your hind various mission here

each represented by a white sign don't

forget that pressing the mission

information button will allow you to see

your progress have fun very kind of you

Winston Your Highness wishes to dance

rhythm okay what you have to do is press

the appropriate buttons at the right

time hey Winston okay

[Applause]

[Music]

Wow I know I know I've always felt the

rhythm in my food

[Applause]

Oh

[Music]

haha the objective of this region

disagree with 150 stopwatches in the

allotted time I'm not like a stop work

you'll get some extra time to finish the

mission easier time did you say let's go

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

right on real class buddy are we ready

to rock the road

why must I always do everything around

here

[Music]

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lasagna is one thing humans got right

[Music]

you

[Music]

mom

[Music]

this is my crew

[Music]

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there you go I owe you one now you wound

up let's get more serious

don't push your luck

[Music]

you should be visiting the constant

attention to the jungle making

you

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Farai Read...The Thrilling Adventures of Babbage and Lovelace - Duration: 5:45.

Ahoy Machinda, welcome to AGCKB with Farai where you will seize the means of computation.

Today, I will be presenting my thoughts on The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage:

The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer written by Sydney Padua.

During the last Christmas Season, Amazon had a $10 discount on all books over $25.

Jumping on this deal, I decided to buy a book about the work of Ada Lovelace and Charlie

Babbage in the field of Computing and Mathematics, which got me this book.

The Thrilling Adventures of Babbage and Lovelace is a Steampunk graphic novel which, along

with detailing the works of Babbage and Lovelace, speculates what it would look like if the

Analytical Engine had been built.

Published by Pantheon in the US and Penguin in the UK in 2015, this novel is written by

Sydney Padua, a graphics artist and animator who has worked on various animated films like

the Jungle Book, and the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

The book originally started out as a web comic to commemorate Ada Lovelace Day to celebrate

women in STEM.

As she got more interested in the life of Ada Lovelace, she did more and more research

until this book hit the printing press.

With all that backstory covered, we can now look into the 320-page book.

Judging the book by its cover, I really like the Victorian-esque style it gives off.

Really creates the setting.

Looking past the cover, we get even more of that Victorian-esque styling with the artwork

and even the pages themselves seems to have come from a book made in the 19th century.

It's clear that Padua put a lot of effort into illustrating this book.

You will find the graphic novel mixed with footnotes, endnotes and two appendices.

Bouncing between the book was hard at first.

Given some time however, I found a way to read this comfortably.

The book has ten episodes as well as two appendices and an epilogue, each packed with its own

thrilling adventure, some longer than others.

While the events themselves aren't necessarily true, Padua was able to put use all the research

she found into the book's adventures.

Padua's intermingling of research and her creativity is the greatest strength of this

book.

For example, in the episode Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Client where they present the Analytical

Engine to the Queen Victoria, we get an insight into Babbage's and Lovelace's personalities,

how they worked together as well as their interaction with other individuals building

on various sources found in the footnotes.

Speaking of interaction with other individuals, I enjoyed how famed scientists and mathematicians

made an appearance.

I mean, I have heard of Michael Faraday as in Faraday Cage, Sir William R. Hamilton as

in Hamiltonian Cycle, Charles Darwin of The Theory of Evolution, Augustus De Morgan as

in De Morgan's Laws and George Boole as in Booleans, but I never thought of them as actual

people with their own personalities until I read this book.

Well, I knew they were people, but I didn't think that they were more interesting than

well...

Victorian scientists.

Along with the mix of research and creativity, I love Padua's sense of humor.

Padua's sense of humor is really meta, especially those footnotes (man, there are a lot of those).

Sometimes, the humor features some shade throwing at Luddites (machine haters) and other times

it gets so meta the fourth wall breaks.

In the chapter Imaginary Numbers addressing the controversy surrounding Lovelace's work,

there are many fourth wall breaks, with my favorite being the appeal to the humble footnotes

(i.e.

Padua's opinion).

Did I mention all the footnotes, endnotes and appendices?

Well, the notes are where the real history is on the life and work of Ada Lovelace and

Charlie Babbage.

They do get really heavy at times to the point of causing the fourth wall again with the

queen telling the footnotes to can it.

Don't get the wrong idea however, these notes are what make the book, especially Appendix

II describing the proposed Analytical Engine and how it could be programmed.

If we were in an elevator and you asked me what I think of this book, I would tell you

that Padua put in a lot of research into the lives of Babbage and Lovelace and used her

creativity and sense of humor to express their personalities and describe their work.

While the notes can get heavy at times, they are paramount to understanding the graphic

novel.

Given how well made this book is, it's worth the $15 I paid for it.

There you have it.

This is my first time giving my thought on a book.

In the description, I have linked Padua's web comic on Babbage and Lovelace as well as

one of her talks discussing how we did the research for the book.

I also have links to some places where you can get the book.

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